November 2008
43 posts
Everything you need to know about Hitler’s... →
There’s no excuse now for this incessant dwelling on Hitler’s sexuality, as if it tells us anything about the true nature of his evil. No, all the obsession can tell us about is the way the culture as a whole exhibits a refusal to face the profundity and complexity of evil and instead—with some honorable exceptions—prefers to escape responsibility for Hitler and the Holocaust by...
Compiling bibliographies at 2:00 AM on a Saturday night. Yep, it’s a glamorous life I lead.
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On a certain move generating link-homology →
Hitoshi Murakami, Yasutaka Nakanishi
One of these days, I’ll finally get around to “illegally” downloading digital copies of all the dead tree books I own.
anildash: Consensus from my peers on gross materialism seems to be: On Black Friday = Bad. On iPhone Day = Don’t judge me!
First traditional American Thanksgiving dinner I’ve had in more than 15 years…and back then I hated turkey.
tj: #!/bin/sh
echo “Happy Thanksgiving” | wall &&
cd $HOME &&
rm -rfv pants &&
sleep 28800 &&
fsck -y &&
sleep 3600 &&
fsck -y &&
exit 0
siracusa: The tragedy of YouTube: the “high quality” link applies only to the pixel resolution and codec, not the content.
Dumbing Down the Cloud →
Rands in Repose on Dropbox, which I love for exactly the same reasons:
When I’m using Dropbox, I don’t even know that I’m using it because it is designed be transparent.
(ht: Daring Fireball)
Moltz: When Rickey gets on Twitter, Rickey’s going to star every tweet Rickey makes. Because Rickey’s the best.
iPhone app wishlist: Papers, Delicious Library, text editor/file viewer with Dropbox/iDisk integration, non-crashy Google Earth.
Wow, incredible restraint and—dare I say it?—professionalism on the halftime show. Are you paying attention, ESPN?
What’s the over/under on how many minutes they spend discussing Brett Favre at halftime? 8? 10?
Never a good sign when you try to download a movie and iTunes pops up that “Sorry, no can do, your hard drive is full” alert.
cleversimon: Privacy advocates today condemned freshly-fallen snow: “It keeps a detailed, unencrypted record of your movements, with no opt-out policy.”
CcSteff: Let’s stop acting shocked when people from our past find us on facebook. We don’t build internet monuments to ourselves hoping to be ignored
Choice of breakfast determined by only edible contents of fridge: eggs, bacon and grape tomatoes. On the plus side: all three are delicious.
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On the homology of the space of knots →
Ryan Budney, Frederick Cohen
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A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott-Taubes integrals... →
Robin Koytcheff
Why worry about the oilpatch when there are... →
Chrysler is said to be asking for about a billion in bridge funding from the Canadian government; for very little extra, we could just go ahead and buy the whole damn outfit. But because we know perfectly well that wouldn’t work (ever hear of British Leyland?), we keep looking for solutions that, unlike outright nationalization, will give us no ownership stake and leave our obligations...
hotdogsladies: I wanna start a tattoo place that only does the Kanji symbol for “Regret.” Only we insist it says “Zen” and makes you seem complex and wise.
hotdogsladies: Statistics prove that only Canadians born in 1963 released books called Outliers yesterday. A phenomenon I call “The Causality Confusion.”
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Good Christ, is it Christmas shopping season already? What happened to all those “I’ll collect gift ideas throughout the year” intentions?
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“How can any man be a democrat who is sincerely a democrat?”
– H.L. Mencken
Remove one from the list of job applications: decided today that I’d rather be unemployed than live in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
hotdogsladies: Shakespeare enables comments:
1. Fake! Marloweshop
2. Methinks more like FART of Avon
3. First
4. Verily: Hamlet = GAY
5. Thanks for ye add!
Just submitted the first of what will end up being more than 100 job applications. I’m sick of this process already.
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The degree of knottedness of tangled vortex lines →
H.K. Moffatt
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A theorem on force-free magnetic fields →
L. Woltjer
Love CNN’s self-conscious refusal to call a state until every other network has already called it.
hotdogsladies: BREAKING: NBC rents every CGI Ionic Column on the eastern seaboard. Countless virtual fancy parties left column-less. Developing….
hotdogsladies: I’ve placed information vital to the survival of partisan rhetoric into the memory system of this R2 unit. Help me CNN; you’re my only hope.
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Dante and the 3-sphere →
Mark A. Peterson
This is me turning the TV off so I don’t have to endure Chris Berman interviewing McCain and Obama at halftime.
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Recently read: Happy Hour is for Amateurs, by The Philadelphia Lawyer
The book that grew out of the PhilaLawyer blog. The Philadelphia Lawyer’s lifestyle is, in many ways, appalling, but he makes a strong case for why appalling excess is the only sane response to the insanity of the legal profession. He’s a good writer and a perceptive observer, especially of the failings of both...
Proof that John McCain has reached the... →
James Fallows on what John McCain’s SNL appearance says about his candidacy.
@raylehmann And what way is that?
badbanana: I want to see a horror movie where those guys in the Taco Bell Triple Steak Burrito commercial get brutally murdered one by one.
warrenellis: Small child I scared the crap out of: “That was…a trick! A TRICK! (looks at her friend and giggles with glee) That was our FIRST TRICK!”